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Woman finds 290 million-year-old fossil footprint

Posted at 9:50 AM, Feb 22, 2019
and last updated 2019-02-22 09:50:39-05

A woman in Prince Edward Island, Canada finds fossilized footprints of a creature that lived 100 million years before the first dinosaurs.

The woman, who has a background in geology found them in a piece of rock last may.

The footprints are from a dimetrodon, a huge reptile-like mammal.

Fossils from them have been found on Prince Edward Island before.

In 1845, a farmer found part of a jaw from one of these creatures during an excavation.